I have in my document a style that has upper/lower borders defined. I
selected a portion of text consisting of a few paragraphs and formatted it
with that style. So far so good - the whole portion of text now has a border
above it (before it begins) and a border below it (after it ends).

Then I selected a paragraph somewhere in the middle of this stylized portion
of text, and indented it to the right. For some reason, this earned the
paragraph a pair of borders of its own, even though the style had already
been applied to it through the bigger portion of text that contains it.

How can I rid the middle paragraph of the up/down borders? Here is a visual
of what that looks like - http://www.badongo.com/pic/5124940

Thanks in advance for any help!

Format > Borders & Shading > None

On Jan 21, 12:27*pm, wildetudor <wildetu...@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> I have in my document a style that has upper/lower borders defined. I
> selected a portion of text consisting of a few paragraphs and formatted it
> with that style. So far so good - the whole portion of text now has a border
> above it (before it begins) and a border below it (after it ends).
>
> Then I selected a paragraph somewhere in the middle of this stylized portion
> of text, and indented it to the right. For some reason, this earned the
> paragraph a pair of borders of its own, even though the style had already
> been applied to it through the bigger portion of text that contains it.
>
> How can I rid the middle paragraph of the up/down borders? Here is a visual
> of what that looks like -http://www.badongo.com/pic/5124940
>
> Thanks in advance for any help!

Thanks, but I was looking for a solution within the style definition. I don't
want to have to specify that I don't want borders for every single paragraph
that I indent

"grammatim" wrote:

> Format > Borders & Shading > None
>
> On Jan 21, 12:27 pm, wildetudor <wildetu...@discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote:
> > I have in my document a style that has upper/lower borders defined. I
> > selected a portion of text consisting of a few paragraphs and formatted it
> > with that style. So far so good - the whole portion of text now has a border
> > above it (before it begins) and a border below it (after it ends).
> >
> > Then I selected a paragraph somewhere in the middle of this stylized portion
> > of text, and indented it to the right. For some reason, this earned the
> > paragraph a pair of borders of its own, even though the style had already
> > been applied to it through the bigger portion of text that contains it.
> >
> > How can I rid the middle paragraph of the up/down borders? Here is a visual
> > of what that looks like -http://www.badongo.com/pic/5124940
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help!
>
>

An indented paragraph should have a style of its own, anyway.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"wildetudor" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:0E2733A2-0E53-462A-9749-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Thanks, but I was looking for a solution within the style definition. I
> don't
> want to have to specify that I don't want borders for every single
> paragraph
> that I indent
>
> "grammatim" wrote:
>
>> Format > Borders & Shading > None
>>
>> On Jan 21, 12:27 pm, wildetudor <wildetu...@discussions.microsoft.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I have in my document a style that has upper/lower borders defined. I
>> > selected a portion of text consisting of a few paragraphs and formatted
>> > it
>> > with that style. So far so good - the whole portion of text now has a
>> > border
>> > above it (before it begins) and a border below it (after it ends).
>> >
>> > Then I selected a paragraph somewhere in the middle of this stylized
>> > portion
>> > of text, and indented it to the right. For some reason, this earned the
>> > paragraph a pair of borders of its own, even though the style had
>> > already
>> > been applied to it through the bigger portion of text that contains it.
>> >
>> > How can I rid the middle paragraph of the up/down borders? Here is a
>> > visual
>> > of what that looks like -http://www.badongo.com/pic/5124940
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance for any help!
>>
>>